How Many Of You Still Believe...

They built the sets.
(sorry, I couldn’t resist the opening)

Literally “Rocket Scientists” (Aeronautical Engineers) working on the launch system here in beautiful Florida. We have a local company that STILL makes guidance systems for missiles and satellites (they have gotten a lot better since the 1960’s).

 

85 pounds and 25 layers of Teflon coated fiberglass cloth (spacesuit).

 

Ho hum we never went to the moon... Now explain the Challenger?... Was that just for show... Seven people died... Conspiracy?... Brother Glen

 

What he forgot to tell you was his mouse ate it... Brother Glen

 

The point about levity may have some validity, but many points have been addressed.

The televised feed and video could not be faked back then. The Van Allen Belts were circumvented. These points have been explained in great detail.

Protection from micrometeorites has been partially addressed.

People have been braving dangerous frontiers for millennia. Risk of life and limb is a part of space exploration. This is a non-issue.

Personal incredulity is not real evidence, and of course that cuts both ways.

 

The extent of the claimed conspiracy needs to be briefly laid out.

Is it that no one reached the moon, or only that no one landed there? For example, did they not launch men at all? Did they not recover anyone from a returned command module? Were the Soviets in on it? Just how deep was this supposed conspiracy?

You can start another thread when this one reaches its limit. But so far, it is unclear if any counter evidence would ever satisfy those supporting a conspiracy theory.

 

What I have seen from you in this thread is just, believe me the moon landing did not happen. What I have not seen from you is any proof {credible source} that it did not happen and at the same time we have a number of comments that refer to credible sources showing that it did happen.

Now the only conclusion that one can logically draw is that you are putting forward a unfounded conspiracy theory. But that seems to be the hill you are willing to die on although it does seem to be a rather lonely place.

 

Some thoughts (YMMV):
--Van Allen Belts: Upthread were some detailed posts on these radiation belts, some of which are apparently much closer to Earth that the ISS orbit. That info also included belt architecture and how properly launched spacecraft could avoid passing thru the VA belts, and also measurements of radiation received within spacecraft, numbers that were far lower than what would be damaging.
-Micrometeoroids: Though their velocity generally exceeds 20,000 mph, their mass is almost always very small. Spacecraft and spacesuits are designed with an outer layer that causes the tiny objects to vaporize on contact such that heat is dissipated before the inner layers are compromised. If that were not so, not only Neil Armstrong et.al. but all those doing extra-vehicle work at the ISS and other manned spacecraft now and earlier would have the same danger. The moon's surface area is over 12 million square miles, so the chances of being hit by a micrometeoroid large enough to puncture a space suit would be very low, though not zero. Space exploration, like earthly explorations to the poles/undersea/mountaintops, include a measure of danger. The smallest micrometeoroids reaching the Earth's atmosphere do not burn up, due to their tiny mass being slowed before encountering sufficient atmosphere to produce enough heat. It's the same principle that dropping a mouse from 1,000 feet doesn't injure the animal but would be far different for a human.
--LEM: Those skinny legs aren't really spindlier than the wheel struts on Spirit of St. Louis, and Lindbergh's airplane had to land in Earth's gravity, much greater than that on the moon.